More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.
I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.
I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.
I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.
Besides writing music and surfing, I like to simply chill with my friends. Watching movies and going out to eat are often my prime choices for a day off.
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
